Month: January 2014

We had a small test pass last week using the Windows Phone version of OneNote. We had four testers co-authoring in a shared notebook and we each were using a different phone. I’ll just call the phones alpha, beta, gamma and delta since we found no problems unique to any specific manufacturer. I was using…

This week I was contacted by a fellow using OneNote and he had a couple of questions about inking. First, he wanted some help changing pen thickness (which was relatively easy to answer) and then he had a question about the "InkBias" registry key. It is a key that (may) exists at [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\OneNote\Options\Pen] "InkBias"=dword:00000000 It…

I want to take a bit to describe one facet of working with partner teams. This type of activity happens very frequently and is critical to getting Office, as a suite, ready. There is not much technical detail here and I want to focus on the process. One of our partner teams (teams that integrate…

Just a quick note today that our job posting is live at https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=133405&jlang=EN&pp=SS. We are looking for a senior level tester to come in and help with increasing the quality of the code we share across all clients. If you have the experience and drive, feel free to let me know or just apply directly. …

I was looking through various posts about OneNote and noticed several folks had wanted the ability to pinch to zoom turned on or off, and were wondering if this was possible to toggle with OneNote from the Windows 8 store. The answer is yes and here is how. Start OneNote and swipe in from the…

I have been spending the last few weeks honing some of my math skills as we start to approach some data analysis tasks on the test team here. My degree is in math and this is particularly interesting for me since I get to use some of those ol’ college skills in real life! That…